Thursday, June 30, 2011

I just couldn't help it after I saw THIS I had to make one myself! I bought the frames 3 1/2" x 5" at hobby lobby (they are half off this week.)

I cut my paper (which is ALL October afternoon--Rocket Age, it's included in the new Blast Off kit for Scrapbook Circle. I LOVED working with it so much I bought some more!). then with my cricut gypsy cut my letters and star. The vinyl is actually fuzzy and by silhouette, I misted it with Red apple, it's so sparkly and fun! I had excess spray so I just flipped my letters up and soaked up more ink. here's a little closeup of the S:
Do you see the sewn edge? I put the paper in the frame with out the glass and traced the edge of the frame, then set my sewing machine to sew left of the line. EASY!
The star is distressed just a little bit to give it an edge.

In other creative news my card Happy day was featured on the Echo Park blogtoday! So totally excited--thank you ECHO PARK!

after the vinyl had dried from being misted I placed it on the center of the glass--(yes, it's on the outside.)
I put it all together in under 45 minutes--most of that was drying time, well really I did it this morning and was doing the morning routine with the family.... :)

I hope you have a WONDERFUL long weekend--we plan to hang out with family and swim! Thanks for dropping in!

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

so I HAVE been creating like mad just want to wait to share.....I know HOW mean! :) But I do want to share pictures of my favorite zoo. It's not large, but hold sentimental appeal to me. We would spend summers with my grandparents, we would visit. The animals are different than our zoo here in Phoenix. Once my grandmother went to demonstrate carting wool and spinning. She was set up in the petting zoo area, I sat next to her knitting. (I thought I was pretty cool, all I could make was a hot pad....) Anyway, this year I went with my siblings who were here and my parents.

This guy was so proud, I got about 5 feet away from him, last year he showed me his stuff (oh and our zoo has peacocks--I just think they're cool.):

and elephants too....

yes, tigers (this was taken through the glass....)

but not coral:

or sea horses:

or monkey puzzle trees (isn't it weird?):

we don't have penguins--they were putting on a show that day:

sharks/tuna either--this makes you feel VERY small, the largest shark in the tank is a nurse shark....

we do have otters, they are ALWAYS fun to watch:

lemurs they were napping....can you imagine this--looks very uncomfortable:

no reindeer or Arctic foxes I think they would melt....

And that is Pt. Defiance Zoo in Tacoma Washington...

After the zoo we went on the 5 mile drive through this BEAUTIFUL park, it is a five mile loop. We did stop and have some adventures and saw some amazing heights and views.

the above pictures really is a very scary drop off, it is STRAIGHT down--pictures really don't do justice to this....

below is scottish broom--it's EVERYWHERE, it wasn't blooming last year when we were there but just GORGEOUS!

Thanks for hanging in there through all the pictures! (sorry about the spaces between pictures--blogger was NOT cooperating today....)

I do have some fun crafty news I was contacted by Jen Gallagher from Echo Park to see if they could feature one of my projects. I of course was OVER the moon excited. I asked which one....

it would be THIS one from last year. One of my FAVORITE creations of all time! Pretty neat that they have a flickr gallery now we can see everyone's creations in one place.

Friday, June 24, 2011

alright, I found my last layout from the Garden Party kit from Scrapbook Circle. you might think garden party--boy layout? Yep:

I even used my cricut to cut the sunshine shapes out of the numbered paper. I then backed it with another sheet.

Here is a closeup of the star on the layout. it too was cut with my cricut, but I wanted it to be slightly different, so it was cut from coordination's cardstock then embossed, I then used my glossy accents to fill in the holes:

Cars 2 comes out today! my house is a buzz of excitement! ALL the boys are pretty excited! :)

I have to admit that that my daughter and I are looking forward to it too, Cars was so cute and funny! well, I'm off and running today. have A LOT to do before the movie! thanks for popping in!